Teaching Assistant (Enhanced Provision)

Astrea Academy Dearne, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S63 9EW

Deadline is tomorrow

• Start date details

  September 2025

• Closing date

  17 July 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  8 July 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subjects: Teaching Assistant, Learning Support Assistant
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £21,924.00 - £22,628.00 Annually (Actual) Scale Point 6-8 £25,183 - £25,992 FTE

Teaching Assistant (Enhanced Provision) job summary

Join Our Team as a Teaching Assistant at Astrea Academy Dearne

Location: Goldthorpe, Barnsley
Salary: £21,924 – £22,628
Hours: 32.5 hours per week
Start Date: September 2025

About the Role

We are looking for a dedicated and enthusiastic Teaching Assistant to join our team at Astrea Academy Dearne. This is a fantastic opportunity to support students in reaching their full potential and to play a key role in our inclusive and aspirational school community.

As a Teaching Assistant, you will work closely with teachers and pastoral staff to support learning, remove barriers, and help create a calm, focused, and purposeful learning environment.

About Us

Astrea Academy Dearne is a vibrant 11–16 secondary school with around 1,150 students. Located in Barnsley, we are easily accessible from Wakefield, Leeds, Doncaster, and Sheffield. As part of the Astrea Academy Trust, we are committed to delivering a high-quality, inclusive education for every student.

We are proud of our knowledge-rich curriculum, our traditional approach to teaching and behaviour, and our belief in the power of education to transform lives.

Our Ethos and Approach

• We teach powerful knowledge—the best that has been thought and said.
• Our curriculum is influenced by Rosenshine’s Principles and Teach Like a Champion.
• We foster a warm/strict culture: disciplined, joyful, and focused on learning.
• We are unapologetically ambitious for every child, regardless of background or starting point.

What We Offer

• A supportive and values-driven team
• Extensive CPD and career development opportunities
• A clear and consistent behaviour system
• Collaborative planning and shared resources
• No formal graded lesson observations—just supportive coaching
• Opportunities to complete NPQs and grow within the Astrea South Yorkshire region
• A chance to make a real difference in the lives of young people

Who We’re Looking For

• A highly effective and proactive Teaching Assistant
• Passionate about helping all children succeed
• Aligned with our values and committed to our mission
• Resilient, positive, and ready to be part of a dynamic team

Interested in Applying?

If you're ready for a new challenge and want to be part of a school that truly believes in the potential of every child, we’d love to hear from you.

Please refer to the Recruitment Pack and Job Description for full details.
To arrange a visit or ask any questions, contact Hannah Peace at: Hannah.peace@astreadearne.org

Interested in Applying? If you are looking for an opportunity to progress, we would love to hear from you.

Closing Date: Midnight, 17 July 2025.

Commitment to Safeguarding and EDI: Astrea Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All posts are subject to enhanced DBS checks. We value diversity and encourage applications from underrepresented groups, including Black, Asian, and minority ethnic backgrounds, disabled people, and LGBTQI+ communities. As a Disability Confident employer, we are committed to promoting a culture that ensures there are no barriers to the recruitment, development, and progression of disabled staff across the trust. We provide reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process to ensure disabled job applicants have the best opportunity to demonstrate their abilities.

Ready to Make a Difference? Take the next step in your career and join our forward-thinking team. Apply today and be part of our mission to create a positive impact!

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

Astrea Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to satisfactory background checks including references and enhanced DBS checks.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Astrea Academy Dearne

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1106 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Astrea Academy Dearne website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-dearne-academy

Do you want to be part of a team where you will help make a lasting impact on our students and rapidly accelerate their progress?

Do you want to work in a school where you are free to teach, with impeccable student behaviour and unhindered by bureaucracy?

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced teacher or ECT.

Astrea Academy Dearne is an 11-16 secondary academy situated in Barnsley, with around 1150 students. We are within commutable distance from Wakefield, Leeds, Doncaster and Sheffield and are a proud member of the Astrea Academy Trust family of schools. We have the highest aspiration for our students to achieve their very best and grow both as individuals and as members of their community. We are a truly comprehensive and inclusive academy. This is reflected in our approach to all areas of our work.

We are committed to a knowledge-rich curriculum and a traditional approach to teaching, behaviour and culture. We believe that schools must teach powerful knowledge, ’the best that has been thought and said’ and an ‘entitlement curriculum’ for all. We believe in explicit instruction and have been greatly influenced by Lemov’s ‘Teach Like A Champion’, Rosenshine and recent developments in cognitive science. We believe that the creation of a scholarly culture that is warm and strict, disciplined and joyful, where there is ‘purpose not power’, ensuring impeccable behaviour, where teachers can focus on teaching and pupils can focus on learning, underpins everything

We are values-driven and our vision is to provide an inclusive, aspirational and academic education for all our students, so that all of them will learn, thrive and lead successful lives. We are unapologetically ambitious for every child, no matter what their background, prior attainment or needs. We want to ensure that all our students have the option to be able to go to university or aspirational alternative. We are not going to reduce expectations because of a child’s background or home life, or because they are new to English or have a special education need. In fact, the opposite is true. It is our job to redouble our efforts to help children overcome these barriers so that they can flourish.

We value our staff highly and treat workload very seriously. Our systems are high leverage, ensuring you can really focus on your core purpose – teaching, in a sustainable way, unhindered by bureaucracy or poor behaviour.

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